Re: Position buffer contents at bottom of window

On Wed, Jun 24 2026, Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> Joost Kremers <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> ```
>> (defun my--recenter-window-to-bottom (&optional window)
>>   "Align contents of BUFFER to the bottom of WINDOW."
>>   (interactive (list (selected-window)))
>>   (when (window-live-p window)
>>     (with-current-buffer (window-buffer window)
>>       (when-let* ((_ (>= (window-end window t) (point-max)))
>>                   (edges (window-body-pixel-edges window))
>>                   (window-top (nth 1 edges))
>>                   (window-bottom (nth 3 edges))
>>                   (text-height (cdr (window-text-pixel-size window (window-start window))))
>>                   (dy (- window-bottom window-top text-height)))
>>         (message "↑%d ↓%d ↕%d dy%d" window-top window-bottom text-height dy)
>>         (pixel-scroll-precision-scroll-up dy)))))
>> ```
>
> Regardless of your problem, at the first look I find the following in
> your code suspicious: what thing do you expect pixel-scroll to scroll?
> The WINDOW is never selected so your current buffer and the selected
> window are possibly not associated.

I tried `(with-selected-window window...` instead of and also in addition
to `with-current-buffer`, but the effect is the same.

-- 
Joost Kremers
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